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Sheriff Joe Arpaio: The 25 Most Read Stories of His Previous Term

The numbers are in and somehow Joe Arpaio, our 80-year-old codger of a sheriff, has secured another four-year term as the county's top lawman. If that wasn't enough to get your blood boiling, the self-professed "America's toughest sheriff" is promising to run for Maricopa County Sheriff again in 201 ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, June 21, 2012

Joe Arpaio's Reign of Terror Blasted in New Documentary Two Americans

Anyone who knows award-winning Phoenix journalist Valeria Fernandez knows that for four years now she and her collaborator, filmmaker Dan DeVivo, have been working on a documentary about Sheriff Joe Arpaio's reign of terror and error in Maricopa County, a film ultimately titled Two Americans.Fernand ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, January 12th, 2011

Watch Ninth U.S. Circuit Court Hearing on New Times Vs. Sheriff Arpaio Lawsuit

Eileen GilBride, Sheriff Arpaio's lawyer, reacts to criticism by Chief Judge Kozinski that she had come to court unprepared. ​Questions asked by a Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel in yesterday's hearing of the New Times vs. Sheriff Arpaio false- arrest lawsuit seemed to lean towar ... More >>

Sheriff Arpaio's Lawyer Chided by Ninth Circuit Court Judge Over Failure to do Homework in New Times Case; Panel Focused on Questions of Arpaio, Thomas Immunity

Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, wasn't thrilled to hear that Sheriff Arpaio's lawyer didn't do her homework.​A U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals judge ripped Sheriff Joe Arpaio's lawyer for her lack of preparation for today's hearing in New ... More >>

New Times' Writers, Designers and Photographers Win Honors from Arizona Press Club

Phoenix New Times walked away with nine first place awards Saturday night at the state Press Club's 2010 Best Journalism in Arizona contest -- including for the paper's comprehensive immigration series, "Amongst U.S."The newspaper received more than 30 awards for work during 2010.Sarah Fenske, ... More >>

ADL's Jared Loughner Report: Mental Illness, Not Ideology Likely Led To Tragedy

Mental illness, rather than Tea Baggery's likely to blame for Loughner's rampage, says the ADLSince Saturday's massacre in Tucson, both the left and the right have parsed alleged killer Jared Lee Loughner's YouTube videos, the statements of his supposed school chums, his favorite books (everything f ... More >>

Endorsements: Romley for County Attorney; Jennings for Corporation Commission; Dougherty for U.S. Senate

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, August 18, 2010

Arpaio Kicks $40K to New Times, Plus Benjamin Bratt Discusses His New Movie, La Mission, and His Opposition to SB 1070

Mayor Phil Gordon and Others (Including Our Boss) to Discuss Sheriff Joe on CNN

Just heard from Dan Saban, a decent guy who has taken on Sheriff Joe Arpaio on the campaign trail and in civil court (and, alas, has lost every time). ​He tells us that he recently participated in a roundtable discussion with CNN "regarding the abuses of authority by Joe Arpaio and friends ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, May 20, 2010

Ask a Mexican on SB 1070

Nativists Go Nuts at a Phoenix Walmart, and the Arizona Republic Belittles the U.S. Attorney’s Investigation of Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, December 31, 2009

Arpaio Brings His MCSO Circus to ASU's Cronkite School, and Deputies Admit Destroying Public Records

Joe Arpaio's Meet the Press Moment Interrupted to the Tune of Bohemian Rhapsody

photo by Adriane Goetz Joe, showing a little leg...You cheeky devil, youSheriff Joe Arpaio's circus came to ASU's Cronkite School of Journalism Monday night, only to be cut short by the sounds of a pro-immigrant ditty, sung to the tune of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.The evening was filled with protest ... More >>

Does U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke Have the Stones to Take on Sheriff Joe?

Bug Sweeps in County Offices Being Investigated as Possible Corruption; County Workers Visited by Deputies at Homes

We just heard from a reader whose friend -- a Maricopa County employee -- was visited in the last few days by deputies from the sheriff's office. The employee told them she didn't want to talk and they went away, our source says. The anonymous reader says the county's finance department workers rec ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, March 26, 2009

Did Joe Arpaio "Threaten" Joe Arpaio by Publishing His Home Address on the Internet?

Remember the hubbub in 2007 when Sheriff Joe Arpaio's bad boys tossed our owners, Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, into jail for having written about the agency's Banana Republic-like "investigation" into us for publishing the old guy's home address on the Internet? Now, seems Joe's th ... More >>

Jan Brewer's Blast from the Past, Courtesy of New Times

We at New Times have fond memories of Secretary of State Jan Brewer -- we simply love foul-mouthed women like her. As the state prepares for a possible Brewer regime if Janet Napolitano flies the coop to be Homeland Security chief, we can't help but skip down Memory Lane to the less complicated y ... More >>

Contradicting His Office's Previous Statements, Chief Deputy David Hendershott Now Claims He Ordered the New Times Arrests

David Hendershott Tries to Take One for Andrew Thomas, but Somebody's Not Telling the Truth

The relentless raptor sinks his beak into the tyranny of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas

Hart v. Arpaio civil rights class-action suit awaits verdict

Power Play

County law enforcement's attack on the judiciary didn't work, but the war's far from over

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Case Against New Times Dropped

County Attorney Fires Special Prosecutor

Props to Our Peeps: The Arizona Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame Awards on Sept. 23

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